Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction With Wireless Technology, Prescription
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §874.3305 (Ear, Nose, Throat panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Hearing Aid LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#788 of 1000 · 673 reports · 2013–2026
- BOOK 673 reports
- RANK #788 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 224 injury-typed
- MALF 448 malfunction
- SPAN 2013–2026
- PEAK 2024: 188
- PHOTO Forceps
Nearest event-volume peer: Forceps, General & Plastic Surgery (0 report gap)
Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction With Wireless Technology, Prescription sits #788 of 1000 among tracked device types with 673 MAUDE reports spanning 2013–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Similar-volume device →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Hearing Aid carries 33.3% INJURY-coded reports, 3.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 33.3% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+3.0 pp)
- MALF 66.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+1.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Overheating of Device is 26% of coded problems · Top event location is 85% of location-tagged rows .
Hearing Aid in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Hearing Aid (this)
Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction With Wireless Technology, Prescription
673 reports
- Forceps
Forceps, General & Plastic Surgery
673 reports
- Hearing Aid
Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription
673 reports
- Hip Prosthesis
Hip Prosthesis, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer, + Additive, Porous, Uncemented
673 reports
- Camera
Camera, Surgical And Accessories
672 reports
- Single Analyt…
Single (Specified) Analyte Controls (Assayed And Unassayed)
672 reports
What this shows Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction With Wireless Technology, Prescription carries 673 MAUDE reports, ranked #788 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports fell to 73 in 2025, down from an average of 173 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction With Wireless Technology, Prescription
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Hearing Aid carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (673 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Hearing Aid are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.
Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Hearing Aid; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.